Rushenberg v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

Action for $5,000 damages brought by father and mother as plaintiffs against the *114defendant company, for causing the death of their minor son on the twenty-third day of June, 1888, who was crushed beneath a carwheel while standing under one of a long train of freight cars on the defendant’s tracks which extend north and south on First street at its intersection with Cherokee street.

The cars, it seems, were loaded with ice^and while being unloaded, pieces of ice fell under and around the ■cars, whereby children were attracted there, and were ■accustomed to be attracted there by such ice,…